Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Provides an overview of activities of the Working Group in 2007; identifies shortcomings in connection with the detention of illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers; analyzes the situation of vulnerable groups of detainees and prisoners susceptible to sexual violence by co-inmates and prison staff; considers the question of registration systems in detention facilities as well as the establishment by law of time limits for pretrial detention; includes recommendations regarding measures to be adopted in the context of counter-terrorism and in states of emergency.

28 p. : tables